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Writing for ''[[IGN]]'', Simon Cardy called the plot a "genuinely good DC comics story", but criticised the repetitive gameplay and "tired and dull" mechanics.<ref name="IGN"/> ''[[Push Square]]''{{'}}s Aaron Bayne concluded that while he found the game fun and better than other [[Games as a service|live service]] games, it was still a lesser product than the Arkham games that had come before.<ref name="PSQ"/> Tassi singled out the campaign as a point of criticism, stating that it is "not good. And gets increasingly worse as time goes on it", though praised the graphical fidelity on display in cutscenes as well as the combat mechanics.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tassi |first=Paul |date=2024-02-03 |title='Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League' Review: Darkest Day, Darkest Knight |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2024/02/03/suicide-squad-kill-the-justice-league-review-darkest-day-darkest-knight/ |access-date=2024-02-04 |website=[[Forbes]] |language=en}}</ref> |
Writing for ''[[IGN]]'', Simon Cardy called the plot a "genuinely good DC comics story", but criticised the repetitive gameplay and "tired and dull" mechanics.<ref name="IGN"/> ''[[Push Square]]''{{'}}s Aaron Bayne concluded that while he found the game fun and better than other [[Games as a service|live service]] games, it was still a lesser product than the Arkham games that had come before.<ref name="PSQ"/> Tassi singled out the campaign as a point of criticism, stating that it is "not good. And gets increasingly worse as time goes on it", though praised the graphical fidelity on display in cutscenes as well as the combat mechanics.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tassi |first=Paul |date=2024-02-03 |title='Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League' Review: Darkest Day, Darkest Knight |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2024/02/03/suicide-squad-kill-the-justice-league-review-darkest-day-darkest-knight/ |access-date=2024-02-04 |website=[[Forbes]] |language=en}}</ref> |
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Developer(s) | Rocksteady Studios |
Publisher(s) | Warner Bros. Games |
Director(s) |
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Designer(s) | Ian Ball |
Programmer(s) |
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Artist(s) | David Hego |
Writer(s) |
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Composer(s) |
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Series | Batman: Arkham |
Engine | Unreal Engine 4[1] |
Platform(s) | |
Release | February 2, 2024 |
Genre(s) | Action-adventure, third-person shooter |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is a 2024 action-adventure shooter game developed by Rocksteady Studios and published by Warner Bros. Games. Based on the DC Comics team Suicide Squad, it is a spin-off of the Batman: Arkham series, and a follow-up to Batman: Arkham Knight (2015). Set five years after the events of Arkham Knight, the game's storyline follows four supervillains—Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Harley Quinn, and King Shark—who are assembled by Amanda Waller and sent to Metropolis to stop the alien invader Brainiac and kill the members of the Justice League who fell under his influence.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is presented from a third-person perspective and its open world design allows players, either individually or cooperatively, to freely roam Metropolis. The game was announced in August 2020 and was scheduled to be released in 2022, but was delayed multiple times. It had an early access period for owners of the deluxe edition that began on January 29, 2024.
Kill the Justice League was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on February 2, 2024. According to OpenCritic, the title received "weak" reviews, with 18% of critics recommending the title; Metacritic labeled the game's reception "mixed".
Gameplay
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is an action-adventure game[2] set in an open world based in Metropolis.[3] The game features four playable characters: Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Harley Quinn, and King Shark.[4] While it can be played solo, the game features a four-player cooperative multiplayer mode. When played solo, players can switch between characters at will, while the other characters are controlled by the AI.[5][6]
Each character has access to three weapon classes, with each class being shared by two of the four characters available at launch. Each character has a unique melee combat style and traversal method, such as Harley Quinn who uses a baseball bat and travels using Batman's grapple gun. A skill tree progression is included, allowing players to re-spec into different skills at any point throughout the game for different build experimentation.[7] Post-launch content is set to be released in the form of "seasons", with frequent free content updates featuring new locations and playable characters.[8]
Synopsis
Setting and characters
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is set in the Batman: Arkham universe,[9] five years after the events of Batman: Arkham Knight (2015). The game centers around the Suicide Squad, which is composed of Arkham Asylum inmates Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn (Tara Strong),[10] Digger Harkness / Captain Boomerang (Daniel Lapaine), Floyd Lawton / Deadshot[a] (Bumper Robinson), and Nanaue / King Shark (Samoa Joe),[11] created by A.R.G.U.S. director Amanda Waller (Debra Wilson).[12] The main antagonist takes the form of Brainiac (Jason Isaacs),[13] who has invaded Earth and brainwashed its inhabitants, including Justice League members Clark Kent / Superman (Nolan North),[14] Barry Allen / The Flash (Scott Porter), John Stewart / Green Lantern (Dan White),[15] and Bruce Wayne / Batman (Kevin Conroy).[16]
Other characters interacted with in the game include Diana Prince / Wonder Woman (Zehra Fazal), the only member of the Justice League not under Brainiac's control;[17] Colonel Rick Flag (Jim Pirri), an A.R.G.U.S. operative working for Waller; Lex Luthor (Corey Burton), a megalomaniacal billionaire and Superman's arch-nemesis;[18] Lois Lane (Seychelle Gabriel), a Metropolis news reporter working for the Daily Planet; Aaron Cash (Duane R. Shepard Sr.), an Arkham Asylum guard; and Edward Nigma / The Riddler (Wally Wingert), a supervillain who challenges the Squad with completing various puzzles across the city; Oswald Cobblepot / The Penguin (Nolan North), a Gotham City crime lord and weapons dealer who supplies the Squad with anti-metahuman weaponry; Mikron O'Jeneus / Gizmo (Rick Pasqualone), a vehicle expert who develops various means of transportation for the Squad; Zalika / Hack (Omono Okojie), a technomancer who monitors the Squad's neck bombs and provides them upgrades; Hiro Okamura / The Toyman (Christopher Sean), a mechanical genius who idolizes the Justice League;[18] and Ivy (Darcy Rose Byrnes), a reincarnated version of Pamela Isley / Poison Ivy who died during the events of Arkham Knight, with no memories of her past life.[19]
Plot
Arkham Asylum inmates Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, Harley Quinn, and King Shark are freed from captivity by A.R.G.U.S. director Amanda Waller and forced to join her Task Force X, the "Suicide Squad". After miniature bombs are injected into their heads, Waller sends the squad into Metropolis, which is under attack by Brainiac. When they raid the Hall of Justice, a brainwashed Green Lantern attacks the squad and explains that Brainiac's attack is the beginning of his plans to terraform Earth. The Flash intervenes to rescue the squad but is gravely wounded and captured by a brainwashed Batman when Boomerang pulls him out of hiding. The squad retreats to the Hall of Justice and encounters Wonder Woman, the only member of the Justice League who was not brainwashed. She refuses to work with them just as Waller orders the squad to kill the Justice League and end their threat.
Waller has the squad scour Metropolis for weapons and technology that can be used against the Justice League, as well as forcibly recruiting other villains into their ranks. They attempt to apprehend Lex Luthor to obtain his knowledge, but he is killed by a now-brainwashed Flash. The squad narrowly escape due to Wonder Woman's intervention. She uses her lasso on the Flash to find a way to stop Brainiac, with him replying that the only way is to kill her friends. The squad is supplied with anti-Speed Force tech, which they use to kill the Flash. Green Lantern arrives and forces the squad to flee through one of Brainiac's portals. The squad finds themselves transported to Earth-2, an alternate Earth that has already been destroyed by Brainiac. They meet an alternate version of Luthor, nicknamed Lex-2, who reveals that he had been collaborating with his Earth-1's version to prepare for Brainiac's invasion.
Lex-2 transports the squad back to their dimension and warns that Waller will get them all killed as her Earth-2 version did to her own squad. The squad breaks into Wayne Enterprises' secret bank vault, where they find Wonder Woman crafting a Kryptonite-based shield. After she leaves, Lex-2 secures Yellow Lantern batteries Batman was keeping as a contingency against Green Lantern and gives them to the squad. He reveals that Waller has no intention of granting the squad their freedom, either letting them get killed or using Brainiac's mind-control technology on them otherwise. The squad confront and kill Green Lantern, temporarily disabling a shield protecting Brainiac's ship. Waller attempts to call a nuclear strike on Brainiac, willing to sacrifice the squad, but a brainwashed Superman thwarts her plans.
Wonder Woman and Superman begin battling each other as the squad attempts to escort Waller to safety inside the Hall of Justice. Wonder Woman stabs Superman with a shard of Kryptonite, but he survives and kills her before retreating to Brainiac's ship. Lex-2 theorizes that Brainiac changed Superman's DNA to be more resistant to Kryptonite, and suggests capturing Batman so he can devise a countermeasure. The squad captures Batman in his hideout and take him to Lex-2, who develops Gold Kryptonite to combat Superman. With no further use for Batman, Harley shoots him dead. Superman is lured out and subsequently killed with the squad's Gold Kryptonite weapons. However, Brainiac captures them and intends to brainwash the squad into his minions. Lex-2 rescues them and reveals that he has learned there are thirteen different Brainiacs spread across different dimensions working together to take over the entire multiverse.
Waller and Lex-2 coordinate to teleport the squad to the first Brainiac's location on Earth-2 to confront him directly, where he reveals his name to be Vril Dox and proceeds to mimic the Flash's appearance and abilities. After a long battle, the squad subdue and capture Vril Dox, allowing Lex-2 to extract the information in his brain. The extraction ends up killing him, with his ship reacting by partially exploding, but does not stop the invasion as twelve Brainiacs remain, whom the squad prepare to hunt down across the multiverse.
Development
A video game based on the Suicide Squad was announced by then DC Comics chief creative officer Geoff Johns in July 2010.[20] In February 2012, he elaborated that the game was in development, adding that "Because of the concept, you have a game where any of the lead characters can conceivably die and it's not a stunt. Some really cool story could come out of that."[21] The formation of the Suicide Squad was teased at the end of Batman: Arkham Origins (2013)—developed by WB Games Montréal—which featured a post-credits scene in which Deathstroke is asked by Amanda Waller to join the team, and in Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate (2013), in which Deadshot and Bronze Tiger join the team with Bane under consideration.[22][23] In the years since Batman: Arkham Knight (2015) was released, there had been rumors suggesting that WB Games Montréal was working on a Suicide Squad game, but no official announcement was made from the development team or publisher.[24] In December 2016, Jason Schreier from Kotaku revealed that the title was cancelled.[25]
Rocksteady, the creator of the Batman: Arkham franchise, was initially rumored to be working on a Superman-themed game, which they later debunked.[26] Rocksteady announced Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League in August 2020,[27] with the first trailer for the game premiering at DC FanDome on August 22, 2020. As the game is set in the "Arkhamverse", plot threads established in the Batman: Arkham series, including the Joker's death in Batman: Arkham City (2011) and the public revelation of Batman's identity as Bruce Wayne in Arkham Knight, would continue in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.[28] The Los Angeles–based company Unbroken Studios assisted Rocksteady in the development of the game.[29]
Release
On March 23, 2022, Rocksteady announced that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League had been delayed from its initial 2022 launch window to early 2023.[30] At The Game Awards 2022, the release date was revealed to be May 26, along with the announcement that Batman would appear in the game, posthumously voiced by Kevin Conroy in what was marketed as his final performance as the character following his death on November 10, 2022.[31][32][33][34]
On February 23, 2023, during a PlayStation State of Play and a separate FAQ, Rocksteady confirmed the game would require an internet connection at all times, have a battle pass, and is set to receive post-launch content such as new playable characters, missions and weapons.[8][35] On 8 December 2023, Rocksteady announced that an offline mode will be added to the game after launch.[36]
On April 13, 2023, Rocksteady announced that the game had been delayed again to 2 February 2024.[37] The Epic Games Store version, however, was delayed to March 5, 2024, with no specified reason.[38]
On January 29, 2024, the game was released 72 hours as early access for owners of the deluxe edition on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. Later that day, servers were taken down for several hours to fix a bug that caused players' story progress to be fully complete upon starting the game,[39] with developers later giving affected players in-game currency in the way of an apology.[40]
Four additional playable Squad members are set to be introduced during the game's post-launch seasons, starting with an alternate reality version of the Joker.[41]
Reception
Aggregator | Score |
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Metacritic | (PC) 64/100[42] (PS5) 60/100[43] (XSXS) 60/100[44] |
OpenCritic | 18%[60] |
Publication | Score |
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Digital Trends | [45] |
Eurogamer | [46] |
Game Informer | 6/10[47] |
GameSpot | 5/10[48] |
GamesRadar+ | [49] |
Hardcore Gamer | [50] |
IGN | 5/10[51] |
NME | [52] |
PC Gamer (US) | 67/100[53] |
PCGamesN | 4/10[54] |
Push Square | [55] |
Shacknews | 5/10[56] |
The Guardian | [57] |
Video Games Chronicle | [58] |
VG247 | [59] |
Pre-release
Press previews in January 2024 were "overwhelmingly negative", according to Kotaku and VG247, with the game further suffering from bugs and server issues.[40][61][62][63] It was also noted that many outlets were not sent review codes before the game's release.[63][64] In an interview with BBC's Newsbeat, Eurogamer said they found the situation to withhold codes "slightly unusual".[63] Both they and VG247 speculated the decision was in response to the previews,[61] while Destructoid felt the technical issues had also played a part.[62] Some noted that no outlet was entitled to a review code,[61][65] and that similar circumstances for other games had occurred before.[65]
Post-release
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League received "weak reviews" according to OpenCritic, with 18% of critics recommending the game; in contrast, it got "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic.[42][43][44]
Writing for IGN, Simon Cardy called the plot a "genuinely good DC comics story", but criticised the repetitive gameplay and "tired and dull" mechanics.[51] Push Square's Aaron Bayne concluded that while he found the game fun and better than other live service games, it was still a lesser product than the Arkham games that had come before.[55] Tassi singled out the campaign as a point of criticism, stating that it is "not good. And gets increasingly worse as time goes on it", though praised the graphical fidelity on display in cutscenes as well as the combat mechanics.[66]
More positively, Video Games Chronicle's Jordan Middler concluded that the game was "much better than the marketing would have you believe", enjoying the writing and gameplay but believing it was let down by its live service elements.[58] Zack Zwiezen for Kotaku also concurred, expressing that the game was fun and well-written, though criticizing the repetitive mission design and live service endgame that he regarded as ending the game on a sour note.[67]
The portrayal of Batman drew mixed opinions from publications. Polygon's Michael McWhertor remarked that Batman's presence was not only felt throughout the game but that his depiction was in keeping with prior entries, particular praising Kevin Conroy's performance.[68] Conversely, writing in IGN, Jesse Schedeen opined that he considered Rocksteady's handling of Batman poor, describing it as a waste of potential compared to how he was last seen in Arkham Knight.[69] Batman's fate also drew backlash from some fans, who claimed it was a disrespectful sendoff and to Kevin Conroy's legacy,[70][71] though it was later revealed that it would not be Conroy's final appearance as the character.[72][73] In Forbes, Paul Tassi felt the response an overreaction given the comic book nature of the game and therefore ability to handwave decisions in this entry.[74] Den of Geek's Matthew Byrd went further, criticising the idea that the game's creative decisions should have been changed because of Conroy's passing, while also partly linking the controversy to online culture wars seeking to depict the game as "woke".[72]
Prequel comic
A prequel comic titled Suicide Squad: Kill Arkham Asylum was originally scheduled to release on May 30, 2023, four days after the game was originally set to release, but was delayed to October 2023, and delayed again to February 6, 2024. Its story takes place between the events of Arkham Knight and Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, and is about how Amanda Waller took control of Arkham Asylum and recruited Task Force X for their mission to kill the Justice League.[75]
Notes
- ^ This version of Deadshot is African-American, who also claims that the Deadshot who appeared in previous Batman: Arkham games was an imposter. In-game dialogue suggests the previous Deadshot is a multiversal variant.
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